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Monday, June 6, 2016

FINALS UPDATE: The NBA Finals ended up with a 6.5 demo rating, down by 11% from Game 1 and by 12% from the year-ago Game 2. Miss USA adjusted up to 1.2.

After a Memorial Weekend hiccup, Game of Thrones (3.95) was back up to very nearly season high levels this week. AMC's Preacher (0.80) looks fairly legit, holding up well after taking last week off and losing its Fear the Walking Dead lead-in. Leading out of Preacher, a preview of Feed the Beast (0.31) was less promising as it prepares to head to Tuesday later this week.

Game 2 of the NBA Finals was a rout, and the prelims (4.4/5.7/5.8/5.8/5.6) were a little lower than what we saw in Game 1. More to come.

After over a decade on NBC, Miss USA returned to broadcast with three hours on Fox, averaging a 1.1 from 7:00-10:00. That's down a bit from the 1.3 and 1.4 in its last couple NBC seasons, but those ceremonies didn't have to air in the little-viewed 7:00 hour.

NBC eked out third place with an American Ninja Warrior repeat (0.7) and its final burn-off hour of Game of Silence (0.6), which beat CBS' repeats of Madam Secretary (0.4/0.3) and Elementary (0.4).

On Friday, ABC unloaded another original episode of Beyond the Tank (0.7) at 8/7c, holding the summer run of What Would You Do? for an uninterrupted run after the NBA Finals.

FULL TABLE:

Name

A18-49

Skew

Last

Lastn

LeLa

wy2y

TLa

Ty2y

True

Last

Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night

1.0

39%

-17%

-0.2

0%

+67%

0%

1.19

-0.43

NBA Countdown

1.6

44%

-24%

-0.5

-0.2

+7%

+167%

+7%

1.84

-0.85

NBA Finals

6.5

47%

-11%

-0.8

-0.5

-12%

+983%

-12%

6.79

-1.02

NBA Postgame

3.5

49%

+483%

-53%

2.66

ABC:

+704%

-18%

60 Minutes (R)

0.8

12%

+33%

-20%

0.96

Madam Secretary (R)

0.4

13%

-33%

-60%

0.65

Madam Secretary (R)

0.4

13%

+33%

-60%

0.82

Elementary (R)

0.4

17%

+33%

-60%

0.83

CBS:

+11%

-50%

Dateline: On Assignment

0.5

16%

+25%

+0.1

+25%

-29%

0.68

-0.34

American Ninja Warrior (R)

0.8

35%

+28%

-6%

1.16

Game of Silence

0.6

32%

+20%

+0.1

+0.2

-33%

+50%

0.96

+0.04

NBC:

+6%

-4%

Miss USA

1.2

36%

-14%

-8%

+95%

1.30

Fox:

-8%

+95%

All:

+141%

-12%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.